Donation using Bitcoin?
Have you noticed the Bitcoin project? I don't claim to understand how it works but I sure would like to be able to give and buy without greedy, crooked middle men like banks or paypal!
I suggest you research the issue and if you like it, perhaps donations could be made in Bitcoin.
What do you guys think about Bitcoin? Anybody have first hand experiences of it?
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This Bitcoin thing is funny, their license tells almost EXACTLY the same things as GPL, however it is not a GPL and is much shorter. Looks like free software to me:
"Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Satoshi Nakamoto
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE."
According to this old Wikipedia article it's free software under the MIT license.
I've noticed that on Bitcoin's forums the users sometime encourage use of non-free software (like some GPU drivers) to increase the speed of creating Bitcoins. I suppose they do that with good reason, as it can take over a year to generate a block without GPU support. However, there is a project that pools peoples resources together so everyone can get some coins and it's free software.
EDIT: Yes, I've had experience with it. It's really a good program. If you'd like some free Bitcoins right away, see https://freebitcoins.appspot.com .
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I'm so trying this Bitcoin thing out... For a business like mine, that is located throughout the world it is a fabulous thing to transfer money free of charge. Expect some comments on how well it works from me in the next month or so.